Biggest saving, practise at home without a studio until you get all the material for your project down cold, then don't change anything when you are in the studio. Find someone local who has done a similar CD to what you wish to sound similar to and check their recording engineer out. Try it yourself on a computer with a decent mike, practise doing it a few times first, before you go into a studio. Most studios will charge you an hourly rate, in Canada I can get studio time for between 50 to 100 Can$ per hour, not sure of UK prices. Estimate an hour or so of studio time for a straight through run of a single voice a cappella recording of each song. I know Brian Bedford is good, he is in Yorkshire though, no idea of his rates. Good Luck, JohnB
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